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Featured Writers IWC Featured Writers have recently distinguished themselves with a sale, option, production, a placement in a lab, or related action. Featured Writers are updated quarterly. James Moorer TV, Features, Drama, Genre James recently launched ONE MOORER, LLC, an independent multimedia company that focuses on discovering diverse and unique voices from marginalized creatives. Read Full Profile Tracy Held TV, Features, Comedy Tracy is currently developing the anthology limited series THE SCAPEGOAT in collaboration with showrunner Barry Schkolnick and producer Brian Tee. Read Full Profile Austin Elliott TV, Drama Austin's pilot STATE OF THE ART was the Winner of the Drama Teleplay Pilot category at the 2023 Austin Film Festival. Read Full Profile Tony Ferrendelli TV, Features, Comedy Tony's comedy 2ND RATE FAIRY (cowritten with Roger Rittenhouse) was a Finalist in the Scripted Digital Series category of the 2023 Austin Film Festival. Read Full Profile Virtic Emil Brown TV, Features, Drama, Genre Virtic directed two episodes of the collaboration series CAREGIVER about children on the spectrum. The project premiered in November 2023 in Irvine at the Easterseals' complex. Read Full Profile Alec Moore TV, Features, Comedy Alec's feature comedy ADVANCED CHEMISTRY recently made its World Premiere as an Official Selection of the Dances With Films Festival. Read Full Profile IWC Membership Use the above search bar to sort writers by name, genre, demographics, script attributes, and more. Alec Moore TV, Features, Comedy Comedy writer seeks someone to laugh, but will consider settling for silent chuckles if you're the stoic type... Read Full Profile Anne Toole TV, Drama, Dramedy, Genre Versatile writer looking to grow with a team of great writers... Read Full Profile Arun K. Vir TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Arun goes beyond being a scribe; she steps into the role of social explorer and tribal architect... Read Full Profile Brandy N. Carie TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre Brandy N. Carie is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who writes horror and drama about what happens when nice girls get mad. Read Full Profile Christine Sneed TV, Features, Drama, Comedy Christine aspires to write stories that entertain but also, like the Ferris wheel, offer the giddy uplift and the vibrancy of deeply seeing and being... Read Full Profile Dana Braziel-Solovy TV, Comedy, Genre A former Chicago punk, Dana rebels, but only for good. Creating feminist TV shows, she fights the patriarchy with her computer keyboard and calls it “QWERTY Hurty..." Read Full Profile David Ngo TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy David wore surf clothes to blend in with his peers in Orange County, CA, but he never surfed. Now, he writes about such experiences with humor, heart, and catharsis... Read Full Profile Eugene Ramos TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre Influenced by William Shakespeare and Rod Serling, Eugene writes genre stories about underdogs fighting the good fight (oftentimes while falling in love) against overwhelming odds... Read Full Profile H. S. Fishbrook Features, Drama H.S. builds elegant, slightly-off kilter worlds where characters struggle to find their right place, and dynamic women at the heart of the narrative always pass the Bechdel Test... Read Full Profile James Moorer TV, Features, Drama, Genre The darkness came with James... Writing soul-gripping, character-driven thrillers that reach unspoken depths of humanity... Read Full Profile Joelle Luman TV, Features, Drama, Genre Filipina-American writer/producer Joelle Luman specializes in dark, edgy stories in the action, grounded sci-fi, and horror genre for film and television. Read Full Profile Julie Dare TV, Features, Drama, Comedy Inspired by her own failed bid at The National Spelling Bee, Julie’s works explore characters redefining themselves after epic failure, devastating loss, and uproarious calamity. Read Full Profile Kelly Jo Brick TV, Drama Kelly Jo Brick, a Sundance Fellow, has a passion for digging into the layers of humanity through telling stories of crime, mystery, underdogs, and dysfunctional families... Read Full Profile Kimberley Ann Sparks TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Kim is an award-winning screenwriter who started in preschool television, went on to write mature video games, and is now writing dramatic features and one-hour series... Read Full Profile Lisa Gold TV, Features, Drama, Genre Writer of unique, edgy dramas/dramedies/sci-fi/fantasy with depth... Read Full Profile Mark DeCarlo TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy A Founding member of The Second City LA, Mark is an Emmy Award-winning TV/Film performer, writer, and producer. Adult Animation = portal to the Multiverse... Read Full Profile Michael J. Dougherty Features, Drama, Comedy, Genre Michael writes dark features, comedies, dramas, and genre... Read Full Profile Natalija Vekic TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Natalija writes and directs suspenseful dramas from the perspective of immigrants, outsiders, and women who boldly shape history but are often forgotten... Read Full Profile Philip Pierce TV, Features, Drama, Genre As a clinical psychologist with a medical background, Philip has special expertise in the field of the human mind. He especially loves deepening other people’s scripts... Read Full Profile Roxanne Beck Raye TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Roxanne is an award-winning screenwriter and author who wants to make a difference. She specializes in original dramas, female-centric stories, and adaptations... Read Full Profile Saiya Floyd TV, Features, Genre Saiya explores new perspectives in historical, fantasy, and sci-fi stories. Through heightened worlds, she uncovers traits that make us the most human... Read Full Profile Steve Holbert TV, Features, Drama, Genre Steve writes horror TV and features where the girls and gays stop running, pick up the ax, and start taking names... Read Full Profile Terri B Spaugh TV, Features, Genre A natural born plotter who loves bending genre expectations... Read Full Profile Veronica Chavira TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Veronica's work focuses on immigrant and LGBTQIA+ stories, of which 3 scripts have placed at Austin Film Festival... Read Full Profile William T. Sutphin TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Creative, by way of The Creator... Read Full Profile Alexa Oona Schulz TV, Drama, Comedy Alexa’s special skill is her background in writing and directing documentaries, and her work history with a law-enforcement agency... Read Full Profile Anthony Sclafani, Jr. TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy Anthony’s writing is fueled by his life experiences along with his passion for true love, comedy and redemption. He hopes to play a part in the resurgence of the Rom Com... Read Full Profile Austin Elliott TV, Drama Austin recently co-wrote his first episode on American Horror Stories. His art forgery pilot 'State of the Art' also won the Drama Pilot Category at the 23' Austin Film Festival... Read Full Profile Carolyn Kras TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Carolyn is a playwright turned drama writer with studio development experience who loves creating character-driven stories with crisp dialogue and surprising plot twists... Read Full Profile Christopher J. Valin TV, Features, Comedy, Genre Contrary to popular belief, Christopher J. Valin writes about more than just superheroes. No, seriously. He really does... Read Full Profile Daniel Gámez TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre Half-hour Dramedy, One-Hour Dramedy, Feature Film Traumedy, Playwright... Read Full Profile Edward Coffey TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy Veteran and AAPI writer of all genres... Read Full Profile Garret Williams Features, Drama, Dramedy, Genre Garret is a screenwriter, director and producer whose work focuses on drama, thriller, dark comedy and in any combination of those genres... Read Full Profile Harrison Pierce TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre An award-winning graduate of UCLA's MFA program, Harrison aspires to infuse the classic genres of film and television with the comedy, drama, and horror of modern life... Read Full Profile Jennifer Vandever TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy Jennifer writes smart, interesting characters navigating absurd worlds. Her scripts center women exploring modern relationships, politics, and power, often with a satiric slant... Read Full Profile Joseph Mwamba TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Joe recently wrote his first episode on an upcoming Netflix action series & writes aspirational Young Adult dramedies... Read Full Profile Karol Ruth Silverstein Features, Drama, Comedy, Dramedy Karol Ruth Silverstein champions misfits, underdogs, and that weird kid nobody wanted to sit next to. Spoiler alert: she qualifies as all of the above. Dramedy is her sweet spot... Read Full Profile Khari Wyatt TV, Features, Drama Khari is a playwright and screenwriter who tells stories about the underdogs of society; underdogs created from circumstances beyond their control or their own regretful choices. Read Full Profile Krystyna Łoboda TV, Features, Drama, Genre Krystyna is inspired to write original, entertaining, epic, and sometimes funny science-fiction... Read Full Profile Lisa Kors TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre Award-winning writer/producer who tells stories of women making bad choices for good reasons... Read Full Profile Marty Lang TV, Features, Drama, Comedy Drama/dramedy writer, captivated with dysfunctional families, politics and the working class... Read Full Profile Michael January TV, Features, Drama, Genre Versatile vision and character in thrillers, action, and drama... Read Full Profile Nicholas Pangilinan TV, Features, Comedy, Genre The son of an immigrant, Nick writes the stories that he wished he had while growing up: diverse, well-rounded, and a bit wild... Read Full Profile Rich Orstad Features, Drama, Dramedy, Genre Heavy focus on features; family drama, horror comedy, genre. Seeking the right manager and agent. Open to OWA's. Read Full Profile Sabine El Gemayel Features, Drama Sabine writes character driven stories advocating for peace and dialog in a world of conflict... Read Full Profile Scott Sanford Tobis TV, Features, Drama, Comedy As a storyteller who firmly believes in the 'content dictates form" adage, Scott loves every genre. That said, his goal is bring romance and comedy back to the romcom genre. Read Full Profile Steven Goldman TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy Writer. Reader. Popcorn Addict. Theoretical Amphibian... Read Full Profile Tony Ferrendelli TV, Features, Comedy Much to the dismay of Tony’s 4th-grade English teacher, and his Mom, he can’t conjugate a sentence to save his life... Read Full Profile Victoria Renee TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Victoria Renee is a real woman with reel dreams... Read Full Profile Yeni Alvarez TV, Features, Comedy, Genre Bilingual Geeky Latina writes from her Cuban-immigrant background to make the world a spicier place—in both languages... Read Full Profile Aminah Hughes Features, Drama, Comedy, Dramedy Aminah writes trauma recovery narratives. She focuses on women’s stories and examines male characters through a feminine lens. Read Full Profile April Sanchez TV, Features, Drama, Comedy Latina screenwriter who explores themes of family, belonging, and identity (peppered with magical realism) in comedy, drama and horror stories for Television and Features. Read Full Profile Billie Jo Mason TV, Features, Genre Recently worked with showrunner Mark Protosevich on SUGAR (starring Colin Farrell) for Apple+... Read Full Profile Christina Hulen TV, Features, Drama, Genre Christina writes features and television about women and LGBTQ+ people whose stories have been white-washed or lost to history... Read Full Profile Cynthia Crofoot Features, Drama, Genre Cynthia writes female-driven drama and genre screenplays with a twist. Her stories showcase strong but flawed female protagonists in worlds where things aren’t always as they seem Read Full Profile Danielle Weinberg TV, Features, Comedy, Genre Danielle writes smart comedies, fun mysteries, and concise personal blurbs... Read Full Profile Ellen Ancui TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy Ellen (Ahn-swee) has been dubbed "queen of the traumadies" for her blend of irreverence and heart in her TV, feature and theater scripts... Read Full Profile Gina DeAngelis Features, Drama, Comedy, Genre Youngest of 10 Kids Fled to Australia at Age 16... Read Full Profile Helena Zhen TV, Features, Drama, Genre High concept writer with an emphasis on elevated genre and an affinity for a world-building. Grounded sci-fi and thriller laced with a potent dose of characterization... Read Full Profile Jeremy Palmer Features, Drama, Dramedy, Genre Jeremy finds humor and humanity in every setting—from WW1 to a public school to a time travel lab—and uses it to tell compelling stories from almost any genre you can name... 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Read Full Profile Lisanne Sartor TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy An Italian American Jersey girl whose dysfunctional family history of secrets and lies has deeply informed her writing and culinary skills as well as her vengeful, loyal nature... Read Full Profile Matt Harry TV, Features, Comedy, Genre Writer of fun, exciting stories with a dash of the fantastical... Read Full Profile Monique Madrid TV, Comedy, Dramedy Monique writes female-driven comedies, usually from lived experience, often with a satirical edge, always with a bit of edge... Read Full Profile Pepper Reed TV, Features, Genre She is the star-chaser who doesn't realize, she is the star she is chasing. Read Full Profile Robin Fusco TV, Drama Robin takes that woman you love to hate, puts her in a fucked-up situation, and makes you root for her. Expect questionable morals, identity crises, and shades of grey... Read Full Profile Sage Wells TV, Features, Drama, Genre Sage and her characters come from "the wrong side of the tracks." She's passionate about secrets, fierce women, poignant revelations, and unlikely duos seeking a better life.. Read Full Profile Shaene M. Siders TV, Features, Drama, Genre Shaene Siders is an IBM-certified computer geek and an award-winning action, science fiction, and fantasy writer. Never read her scripts without a helmet... Read Full Profile Teresa Sullivan TV, Features, Drama, Comedy Salty heroes, bad-ass leading women, war stories, baseball tales, and a laugh-out-loud granny saving an airplane – No one puts Teresa’s characters in a corner... Read Full Profile Tracy Held TV, Features, Comedy A Chinese/Eastern European writer, Tracy loves to tell stories about do-gooders who strive to save the world, but struggle to know how to navigate the human interaction part... 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< Back Christopher J. Valin christophervalin@gmail.com 951-529-1596 http://www.christophervalin.com Christopher J. Valin is a writer, artist, and historian living in the Los Angeles area. In addition to his novels, he’s written and inked for independent comic book companies, written scripts for production companies, and has had numerous short stories published in anthologies such as The Future Chronicles, Beyond the Stars , and Peter David's The Fans Are Buried Tales . His screenplays, teleplays, and stories have won numerous awards and contests, including the BIBA for the first book in the Raptors superhero series, written (as CJ Valin) with Jaime Castle. Christopher received his master's degree with honors in military history, and his first book, Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles and the Breaking of the Line , is the expansion of his master's thesis on his 5x-great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas. Honors & Awards Winner, Golden Age of Television Pilot Competition - THE NEMESIS - 2010 Winner, Scriptwriters Network Producers Outreach Program - SECRET DISCIPLE - 2000 Second Place, TVWriter.com People's Pilot contest - STAR ACADEMY 3013 - 2016 non-WGA Male, 55+ SIDEKICK: THE RED RAPTOR FILES (Superhero TV Drama Pilot - TITANS meets THE BOYS: GEN V ) The city's greatest hero has disappeared and it's up to his teenage sidekick to find him. But Red Raptor isn't prepared for the challenges he must face when he has to go up against their most dangerous foe without his partner. STAR ACADEMY 3013 (Sci-Fi Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE ORVILLE meets LOWER DECKS) The galaxy's best and brightest attend the Star Academy...and so do these guys. They may just experience great adventures some day, if they can survive until graduation. THE NEMESIS (Superhero Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE BOYS meets DESPICABLE ME) Alex's day was bad enough when his nemesis, Eaglestar, revealed to his girlfriend that he was a super-villain. But things go from bad to catastrophic when the other members of his evil league of villains decide to kill him for revealing their plan for world domination. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, YA, Animation, Dark Male, 55+ unrepped

< Back Ellen Ancui Attorney: Tom Rubin (310) 279-5190 | tom@trubinlaw.com ​ https://ellenancui.blogspot.com/2024/01/hello-2024-here-i-am-looking-like-ive.html Coverfly Ellen is a middlescent, bi-sexual, neuro-diverse, writer for TV, film, theater and podcasts. She writes “traumadies” and obsesses over imposter syndrome, as well as sexuality and identity. Her blend of Catskills schtick with dysfunctional family drama comprises her special sauce. She considers herself “Asian Adjacent“, given her adopted Chinese daughter and Chinese/Japanes partner, and writes about Asian characters. Ellen’s mom was a Sicilian Catholic who converted for her German, Jewish dad, but would sneak her ham sandwiches in the garage. This set the stage for her storytelling and cooking. In NYC, Ellen was a private chef for Oscar-winning writer Horton Foote, and also Trump’s personal florist. She moved to LA after the success of her one-woman shows, ZEL REBELS! (Public Fringe) and JUMPING OFF THE FRIDGE (HBO Workspace). She was staffed on the sitcom, MALCOLM & EDDIE and her play GLORY PIE had a sold-out run at the Coronet Theater garnering raves from Variety. Credits: BROWN & FRIENDS (Netflix), BONNIE SCREWS UP (Aural Stories podcast), SIZZLER, one-act play (Next Stage Press). Spring 2024 Ellen will direct her short, LET HIM GO, produced by FutureSelf Media and Ain’t No Lady Productions. Ellen wrote FIREBREAK, a climate, action thriller, with Nathan Fleetwood, and wrapped her podcast, FILTHY MILFS, which is hosted by the literary platform, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes. Ellen is also credited as Executive Producer for optioning two features and a TV pilot. Honors & Awards Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival - LONG ISLAND GIRLS - 2022 Finalist, Stowe Story Labs - LONG ISLAND GIRLS - 2023 Finalist, Filmatic Comedy Awards - SILICON SALLY - 2022 WGA Post-current Member Female, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 55+, 40+ SILICON SALLY (Comedy / Rom Com - BOOKSMART meets BRIDESMAIDS) Struggling to withstand Silicon Valley's tech-bro culture, Sally, a talented coder, and her bawdy BFF, fraudulently infiltrate a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in hopes of securing a powerful investor. LONG ISLAND GIRLS (A half-hour traumedy with animated bits - PEN15 meets BIG MOUTH) Set in 1976, Zel, a rebellious teen will do anything she can in order to be cool, including experimenting with drugs, sex and musical theater. (Based on the award-winning one woman show - 8 finalist awards) THE SOLICITOR (Hour-long procedural dramedy - THE SPLIT meets THE GOOD WIFE) When a successful attorney gets disbarred for sexual misconduct, she has to start over from the bottom and manage the legal staff, the very people who took her down. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Queer, Procedural, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, Slapstick Female, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 55+, 40+ unrepped

< Back Rich Orstad richorstad@laughingo.com ​ http://www.laughingo.com Rich started writing his first story, the sci-fi thriller Lightmares, in his High School Creative Writing class, where his teacher commented he had a difficult choice to make; do the practical thing and become an Engineer or heed Robert Frost’s advice, take the road less travelled and become a writer. Well, after graduating college as a Mechanical Engineer and starting his career, the monkeys never stopped scratching at that story until it finally poured out of him nearly twenty years later, and he's been writing ever since. Since then, he has become a two-time winner and twelve-time finalist with two features in various stages of development. He won the Screencraft True Story Competition with his inspirational bio-pic ENDURANCE, currently in development with Noble Story Co, placed Silver in PAGE with his family feature RESCUE DOG, and is working with Redwoods Studios with his Austin After Dark Finalist horror-comedy NAMASTE ALIVE! Growing up, Rich consumed every Stephen King novel he wrote, was lucky enough to watch Star Wars when it first came out in theaters and had a dad that loved to tell stories about growing up on a farm in depression-era North Dakota. Which is why Rich loves telling stories across all genres because like a well-lived life, every story should pack an emotional punch. Rich is looking for the right representation, is open to OWA’s, and resides in Los Gatos, CA with his wife, Kim. non-WGA Male, 55+, Middle Eastern ENDURANCE (Feature, Family Drama) After losing his legs to an IED in 2012, an Afghanistan War veteran commits his life to completing the Boston Marathon one year after the 2013 bombings and to finish the most important race of his life…his commitment to faith and bringing hope to wounded veterans. Based on a true story. KEEPSAKES CHRISTMAS (Feature, Family Drama) When a social worker discovers that an elderly woman’s Christmas keepsakes have the power to magically transport them both back in time to the memory each holiday memento represents, she takes on the fight to save the senior’s home and her lifetime of precious holiday memories. NAMASTE ALIVE! (Feature, Horror Comedy) When a shy Cali girl says her mantra wrong during Hot Mindfulness Yoga Class and becomes possessed by the Hindu God of Destruction, her best friend must assemble a rag-tag team of friends, family, and mystics to save her life and prevent the end of humankind. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Magical Realism Male, 55+, Middle Eastern unrepped

< Back Roxanne Beck Raye roxannebeck1@gmail.com ​ https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0065270?ref_=hm_prof_name Originally from Arkansas (it's between Tennessee and Oklahoma), screenwriter, author, and actor Roxanne Beck Raye has been writing stories since she was seven. Credits include MISS FAMOUS starring Kristen Wiig and Jimmy Kimmel (included in the James Franco anthology THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS, available on Prime) as well as uncredited polishes and rewrites for studios and production companies. Roxanne's TV drama pilot THE QUEEN OF MAGIC received a "9" rating from The Black List. Recently optioned by Lamar Richardson of Ivy Lion Productions, the script ranks in the Top 1% of Coverfly's TV Dramas, 2024. Roxanne's scripts tend to focus on women who won't be silenced, and underdogs who never give up. She is a member of the Independent Writers Caucus (the former WGA Caucus), an alum of the Women in Film Mentorship Program, and SAG-AFTRA. Roxanne holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA (Humanitas Drama Fellowship nomination, Oliver's Prize.) She lives in LA with her wonderful dogs Dolly and Lucky. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Stage 32 Female-Driven Screenwriting Contest - THE QUEEN OF MAGIC - 2022 Semifinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition - THE QUEEN OF MAGIC - 2022 Second-Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - FLORIDA - 2019 non-WGA Female, Over 40 THE QUEEN OF MAGIC (TV Drama) The relentlessly ambitious daughter of a Midwest circus owner must overcome the hurdles of her father's objections, a rival magician, and 1920s sexism to become the "Queen of Magic" and the greatest female magician of the 20th century. HAND TO GOD (TV Drama) An agnostic actress must choose between her career and a new calling when her best friend, a gifted healer, bequeaths her with the gift of healing on her deathbed. FLORIDA (Feature) Cousins Luke, 19, and Matt, 22, set out on a road trip from North Carolina to Florida on spring break in 1982, envisioning a week of easy girls, alcohol, and partying. But when they pick up a beautiful, pregnant young hitchhiker, their lives will be changed forever. Character-driven, Female-centric, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Animation, Satire, Dark, Magical Realism Female, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Joseph Mwamba Kate Prentice & Doorie Lee, 42 - kateprentice@42mp.com ; doorielee@42mp.com Direct Email: JoeMightLikeTV@gmail.com http://www.Telemazing.com Joseph Mwamba is a first-generation African-American Y.A. writer from Indiana. He's recently been named to ISA's Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch in 2023 and wrote an episode as a Writers' Assistant for Season 2 of an upcoming Netflix action series. Prior, he was the Writers’ PA for Season 4 of Netflix's psychological thriller YOU and Season 2 of Apple TV's mystery-comedy THE AFTERPARTY. Previously an assistant for two TV Lit agents at UTA, Joe was selected into Rideback Rise Fellowship as a Circle Member, Coverfly's Endorsed Writer Program, and Roadmap Writer's Support Staff Initiative. His Y.A. action dramedy THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX won the 2022 Grand Prize in the Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Pilot Competition and has been selected into the 2023 Original Bureau. He’s currently repped by Kate Prentice and Doorie Lee at 42. Honors & Awards Disney Writing Fellowship Finalist - 2024 Top 25 Screenwriters to Know, ISA - 2023 Grand Prize Winner, Emerging Screenwriter Action & Adventure Pilot Competition - THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX - 2022 non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX (Y.A. Action Drama - HARRY POTTER meets KINGSMEN) The unsettling arrival of a new teen helps a principal launch the CIA’s secret prep academy into disorder as faculty and students find their secrets are no longer safe. FINDING A LOST PEN (Y.A. Mystery Dramedy - VERONICA MARS meets SEX EDUCATION with a dash of WANDAVISION) A teen with crippling social anxiety starts a high school detective agency, secretly using its intel on students to find his missing twin sister. Coming-of-Age, YA Male, BIPOC, Black repped

< Back Danielle Weinberg DanielleWeinberg8@gmail.com ​ http://WrittenByDanielleWeinberg.com An award-winning writer and published author since the third grade, Danielle recently sold an original romcom script to Johnson Production Group. Her whodunit play MURDER, PARTY OF TEN was featured in the 2023 New Works Festival of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company, and four festivals selected her comedic short film DOWN WITH THE SHIP. She is the writer-director of the upcoming sci-fi comedy INVASION '53, starring Jeffrey Combs. Danielle is a graduate of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University, where she also earned a degree in Film & Media Studies. She has an M.F.A. in Feature Film Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She worked for Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (STAR TREK, SLEEPY HOLLOW) and developed projects for Orlando Jones and Legion of Creatives. Danielle's writing style is light, witty, and playful, and her influences include Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, and Steven Spielberg. A proud Marylander, Danielle is passionate about classic Hollywood, Sherlock Holmes, Disneyland, swimming, Bing Crosby, the Anaheim Ducks, and the Washington Capitals. Honors & Awards The Best of the IWC - IRL - 2024 non-WGA Female, 40+ IRL (Feature – comps: ROXANNE, YOU'VE GOT MAIL) "Cyrano" in the world of online gaming: Romantic but insecure war vet Landon helps his hunky best friend win the heart of an amazing girl — a player in Landon’s online video game — even though Landon is in love with her! COASTAL WATCH (Feature) In the vein of Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW: A recently traumatized teen witnesses a murder in the beach house across the street, but when no one believes her, she seeks out the answers herself and finds her own life in jeopardy. CURIOSITY (Pilot – comps: CASTLE, VERONICA MARS) Sherlock Holmes with a sci-fi twist: An outgoing young undergrad teams with a brilliant but socially inept A.I. researcher to solve baffling murder cases — and gradually comes to realize that her genius partner is the world's first android. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Procedural, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, YA Female, 40+ unrepped

Featured Writers IWC Featured Writers have recently distinguished themselves with a sale, option, production, a placement in a lab, or related action. Featured Writers are updated quarterly. James Moorer TV, Features, Drama, Genre James recently launched ONE MOORER, LLC, an independent multimedia company that focuses on discovering diverse and unique voices from marginalized creatives. Read Full Profile Tracy Held TV, Features, Comedy Tracy is currently developing the anthology limited series THE SCAPEGOAT in collaboration with showrunner Barry Schkolnick and producer Brian Tee. Read Full Profile Austin Elliott TV, Drama Austin's pilot STATE OF THE ART was the Winner of the Drama Teleplay Pilot category at the 2023 Austin Film Festival. Read Full Profile Tony Ferrendelli TV, Features, Comedy Tony's comedy 2ND RATE FAIRY (cowritten with Roger Rittenhouse) was a Finalist in the Scripted Digital Series category of the 2023 Austin Film Festival. Read Full Profile Virtic Emil Brown TV, Features, Drama, Genre Virtic directed two episodes of the collaboration series CAREGIVER about children on the spectrum. The project premiered in November 2023 in Irvine at the Easterseals' complex. Read Full Profile Alec Moore TV, Features, Comedy Alec's feature comedy ADVANCED CHEMISTRY recently made its World Premiere as an Official Selection of the Dances With Films Festival. Read Full Profile IWC Membership Use the above search bar to sort writers by name, genre, demographics, script attributes, and more. Alec Moore TV, Features, Comedy Comedy writer seeks someone to laugh, but will consider settling for silent chuckles if you're the stoic type... Read Full Profile Anne Toole TV, Drama, Dramedy, Genre Versatile writer looking to grow with a team of great writers... Read Full Profile Arun K. Vir TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy Arun goes beyond being a scribe; she steps into the role of social explorer and tribal architect... Read Full Profile Brandy N. Carie TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre Brandy N. Carie is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who writes horror and drama about what happens when nice girls get mad. Read Full Profile Christine Sneed TV, Features, Drama, Comedy Christine aspires to write stories that entertain but also, like the Ferris wheel, offer the giddy uplift and the vibrancy of deeply seeing and being... Read Full Profile Dana Braziel-Solovy TV, Comedy, Genre A former Chicago punk, Dana rebels, but only for good. Creating feminist TV shows, she fights the patriarchy with her computer keyboard and calls it “QWERTY Hurty..." Read Full Profile David Ngo TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy David wore surf clothes to blend in with his peers in Orange County, CA, but he never surfed. Now, he writes about such experiences with humor, heart, and catharsis... 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The IWC Best Of List, 2024 A list of the Top 20 screenplays and pilots written by IWC Members within the last year. Scroll through the list below, or download it here .

< Back Christine Sneed sneedchristine@gmail.com ​ http://christinesneed.com In May 2018, Christine Sneed packed her bags, said goodbye to friends, frenemies, and family, and tossed out the ancient spices in her cupboards before pointing the car west from Chicago. A few days later she landed in southern California, lower back in outrage, hair in a semi-permanent snarl. Four+ years on, she still has some boxes to unpack, if we’re being honest here. She's written features and pilots based on her short stories and novels (three novels and two story collections published by Bloomsbury and indie press 7.13 Books, and a forthcoming story collection from Northwestern University Press) as well as original scripts. Comedy is her first love, but she's an experienced writer of dramas too. Her most recent books are Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos and The Virginity of Famous Men (stories). Direct Sunlight (stories) will be out in June 2023. She has an MFA in poetry and a bachelor’s in French, which has been useless job-wise but in her mid-20s she had a good-looking French boyfriend. Presently, she lives in Pasadena with her long-time partner and teaches part-time for Northwestern University's and Regis University's MFA programs (fiction-writing). Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Nicholl - THE FEMALE GAZE - 2020 Finalist, ScreenCraft Short Story Contest - QUALITY OF LIFE - 2019 Finalist, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize - PORTRAITS OF A FEW OF THE PEOPLE I'VE MADE CRY - 2011 WGA Associate Member Female, 40+ FIVE ROOMS (Feature or limited series, YA dramedy - JUNO meets SCENT OF A WOMAN) Ignoring her better judgment, a lovelorn teenage girl, struggling over her own recent break-up, agrees to help the blind man she works for after school win back his unfaithful girlfriend. PARIS, HE SAID (Feature or limited series, drama - AUTUMN IN NEW YORK meets PARIS, JE T'AIME) Devil's bargain or golden ticket? When a young destitute painter in NYC is offered the chance to move to Paris and focus on her art, she must decide if it's possible to have the career she longs for without sacrificing her chance at true love. THE HEMINGWAY MYSTIQUE (Feature dramedy - THE BOOKSHOP meets YOU'VE GOT MAIL) When their store is threatened by an unscrupulous landlord, a bookstore owner and her son are helped by the ghost of Ernest Hemingway, who has escaped the afterlife in order to check up on his literary legacy. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Michael January Manager: Paul Addis, Ambitious Entertainment - ambitiouspma@gmail.com 818-990-8993 Born in Central California, Michael January studied drama at West Virginia University and Theater Royal in London and began his entertainment career as an actor and director in professional theater. After starting as a story analyst for studios and development executive, he wrote four action-thrillers: TO BE THE BEST, FIREPOWER, CIA II: TARGET ALEXA, and DEADLY TARGET for premiere on HBO and Showtime, the female action thriller THE HEIST for HBO and Germany’s Pro7, the romantic cop drama-thriller DER TOD IN DEINEN AUGEN (SILIENCED) starring Thomas Kretchsmann for SAT1, the Native-American themed thriller-drama WARPATH for SKY TV, a family action-comedy crime caper HOW TO CHANGE YOUR PARENTS for Beta Film, and the genre-bending rock’n’roll werewolf/teen horror film NEOWOLF for Lionsgate. He is one of the screenwriters profiled in the screenwriting documentary and companion Harper-Collins book Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Tell Their Stories and is currently developing television series and limited series. Michael has two published novels, the speculative fiction autobiography Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley and the WWII action adventure story Aces and has written six non-fiction travel books in his best-seller Favorite Castles of Europe series. His Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist script THE BOY KING'S TALE is soon to be published as a medieval YA action adventure novel. non-WGA Male, 40+, 55+ GOLDEN GATE (Period Drama Series ) An ambitious young boxer rises on his fists and wits from iron worker on the Golden Gate Bridge to "King of Nob Hill" in 1930’s San Francisco. FLASHBACK (Crime Procedural Series) A murder detective claims he solves crimes by jumping back in time, by 48 hours, 32 minutes to revisit the crime and suspects. Is he real, or a homicidal maniac? GRANDMA'S HOUSE (Horror Feature) A biracial family goes to visit grandma for the holidays, but grandma has been going through some changes since grandpa died, and just how much she’s changed will be make this their last holiday, ever. Character-driven, Thriller, Procedural, Western, Romantic, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, YA Male, 40+, 55+ repped